Knockety
knock, knockety knock. Who's that knocking on Christmas
Eve? Is it the trolls who come every year and gobble up Kyri's
Christmas feast? Kyri is worried, but when she peeks out and sees
the boy from Finnmark and his ice bear, she opens the door and welcomes
them in.Knockety
knock, knockety knock. Who's that knocking on Christmas
Eve? This time it is the trolls pounding on the door.
But they can't get in.Knockety
knock, knockety knock. The trolls pound even harder.
Suddenly there is a loud crack and the hungry little trolls burst
into the hut.
Will Kyri, the boy, and his ice bear be able to save
the Christmas feast?
Jan Brett and her husband, Joe Hearne, went to
Norway for her story, based on an old Norwegian folktale. They
traveled all the way the the northern province of Finnmark, where the
polar bears live and the northern lights radiate across the sky.
Special thanks to the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield,
Illinois, and to Dr. Lee Cera and the staff for their introduction to
Kinapak the polar bear and for providing slides and photographs of Kinapak
from his birth to the present.